Uncreative Freewrite

"Basically, his[Kenny G's] premise is that the author is dead, originality is dead, and all that authors can do now is rearrange texts that have already been written."

This is my main problem with Kenneth Goldsmith's logic behind uncreative writing. While I will agree that originality is pretty much dead, the way to remedy the repetition we see in movies, music and writing today is not to just stop trying. That is a surefire way to make sure that from here on out no more creative and original works of writing are ever made. I understand Goldsmith's frustration, watching a movie with a premise about another coming of age love story or another Halloween remake can be exhausting, and perhaps the problem with the writers of those works is that they have given up, which is exactly what Goldsmith wants them to do. It seems that the opposite of what Goldsmith says would be true: if we just keep rearranging texts, it is naturally going to be uncreative because somebody else has written it, whereas if writers keep striving to come up with a new story, plot twist and characters there is at least a chance for something positive to come out of it. We all know that the act of writing has changed dramatically from the time of Shakespeare, but that doesn't mean that writing is dead. Societal changes overtime are enough to create new ideas and space for new writing so to give up on it would ruin any chance to document current history through writing. While it's hard to find a new plot when so many have been written, other aspects of writing have improved; technology has improved the way we print, read and receive books and as long as authors at least attempt to be creative, not everything that comes out of it can be bad.